Billiard or billiards may refer to:

Games

* A , a type of shot in cue sports ''(see below)'' * Billiards:

cue sports Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions of ...

in general; the term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically: **

Carom billiards Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or "counts" by ' one's o ...

(also known as French billiards), games in general (a chiefly non-British usage) **

Three-cushion billiards Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to the off both while contacting the at least three times before contacting the second object ball. A point is scored for each su ...

, even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide ** The specific game of

English billiards English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two (one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team us ...

(a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage) **

Pool (cue sports) Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in it ...

(pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage) * See the list of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically: **

Pin billiards Pin billiards may refer to any of a fairly large number of billiard games that uses a , or a set of "pins" or "s". The earliest form of billiards, ground billiards, was played with a single pin called the "king". Table billiards kept the king until ...

, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of "pins", or "skittles" **

Bar billiards Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets. Bar billiards developed from the French/Belgian game billard russe, of Russian origin. The cu ...

, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards * Electric billiards, an obsolete term for

pinball Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails call ...

(from '' électrique'' in French, in which pinball is today called ''flipper'', a borrowing from English)

Mathematics and physics

Billiard (number) Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales. Most English variants use the short scale today, but the long scale remains dominant in many non-Eng ...

, the long-scale name used in most European languages for the number 10¹⁵ (called quadrillion in the short scale generally used in English) *

Dynamical billiards A dynamical billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between free motion (typically as a straight line) and specular reflections from a boundary. When the particle hits the boundary it reflects from it without loss of speed ( ...

, the mathematical theory of particle trajectories within a closed reflective boundary

People

Harry Billiard Harry Pree Billiard (November 11, 1883 – June 3, 1923), nicknamed "Pree", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played in with the New York Highlanders of the American League, then in with the Indianapolis Hoosiers, continuing with ...

(1883–1923), Major League Baseball pitcher *

Maria Duchêne-Billiard Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

(1884–?), French contralto of the Metropolitan Opera * (née Billiard, 1884–1976), American painter, and wife of

Robert Pelton Sibley Robert Pelton Sibley (March 26, 1879 - November 3, 1957) was an American academic and a headmaster of Deerfield Academy. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Sibley graduated from Amherst College in 1900. At commencement, he was awarded the Henry D ...

Efren Reyes Efren Manalang Reyes (born August 26, 1954), popularly known by the nickname "Bata" (English: "Kid"), is a Filipino professional pool player. Reyes is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. A winner of over 100 inte ...

Philippine Professional Billiard Player

Games

Mathematics and physics

People

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